MAGIC IN MONTREAL is long overdue for a makeover. Ever since the advent of the internet, magic clubs have all but vanished (pun intended), bars and restaurants are struggling - because there are simply too damned many of them - the art is simply not where i left it 25 years ago...
As the New President of the Montreal Chapter of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, it's my responsibility to help increase the "magic content" in our city and attempt to meet and greet the local magi and improve their level of commitment to our art through active leadership and my own specialized knowledge. It also falls to me to spot up-and-coming talent and suggest s/he enroll in one or more of our conjuring courses. To that end, Montreal's very first MAGIC ACADEMY is now open to the public. Registration is closing fast! TALENT looks like this boy:
The true skill of the magician is in the skill he exhibits in influencing the spectator's mind.
This is not a thing of mechanics. It is not a thing of digital dexterity. It is entirely a thing of psychological attack. It is completely a thing of controlling the spectator's thinking. Control of the perceptive faculties has nothing whatever to do with it.
Convincingly interpreting, to the spectator, what the senses bring to him, in such a way that the magician's objectives are accomplished, is the true skill of the skilled magician."
Convincingly interpreting, to the spectator, what the senses bring to him, in such a way that the magician's objectives are accomplished, is the true skill of the skilled magician."